Source Rationale:This source is a general overview of the
events that took place on June 6th, 1944.The main forces that attacked
Juno Beach were the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division.The events at
Juno were not good since the Canadian landing crafts were 10 minutes off pace of when they were supposed to be landing.This caused heavy casualties and the mines that were in the water claimed 30 percent
of the boats and landing crafts were either destroyed or damaged.This source
fits in with our other sources because it gives a general overview of the attack at Juno Beach.Without an overview of each beach our research would be pointless.This source goes against our thesis because 1 out of 18 people died among the Allies that fought at Juno.

The second beach from the east among the five landing areas of the Normandy
Invasion of World War II was JunoBeach.
It was assaulted on June 6, 1944 (D-Day of the invasion), by units of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, who took heavy casualties
in the first wave but by the end of the day succeeded in wresting control of the area from defending German troops.

The landing area code-named JunoBeach was approximately 10 km (6 miles) wide and stretched on either
side of the small fishing port of Courseulles-sur-Mer. Two smaller villages, Bernières and Saint-Aubin, lay to the east of
Courseulles. Smaller coastal villages lay behind the sand dunes and had been fortified by the occupying Germans with casemates
and adjacent fighting positions.

The initial hazard for the invaders at Juno, however, was not the German obstacles
but natural offshore reefs or shoals. These forced the assault waves to land later on D-Day morning than desired: H-Hour (the
time that the first assault wave would hit the beach) was set for 0745 hours, so that the landing craft could clear the reef
on the rising tide. (It was later discovered that some of the “shoals” were actually seaweed.) Elements of the
German 716th Infantry Division, particularly the 736th Regiment, were responsible for defense of the area, and the seafront
houses offered them excellent observation and firing positions.

JunoBeach was part of the invasion area assigned to the British Second Army, under Lieutenant
General Miles Dempsey. The beach was divided by the Allied command into two designated assault sectors: Nan (comprising Red, White, and Green sections) to the east and Mike (made up of Red and White sections)
to the west. It was to be assaulted by the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division, the 7th Brigade landing at Courseulles in Mike
sector and the 8th Brigade landing at Bernières in Nan sector. The objectives of the 3rd
Division on D-Day were to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the Carpiquet airport west of Caen, and form a link between the
two British beaches of Gold and Sword on either side of Juno Beach.

The first assault wave landed at 0755 hours, 10 minutes past H-Hour and fully three
hours after the optimum rising tide. This delay presented the invading Canadians with a difficult situation. The beach obstacles
were already partially submerged, and the engineers were unable to clear paths to the beach. The landing craft were therefore
forced to feel their way in, and the mines took a heavy toll. Roughly 30 percent of the landing craft at Juno were destroyed
or damaged.

As the troops waded ashore, there was little fire at first—mainly because
the German gun positions did not aim out to sea but were set to enfilade the coastline. As the Canadian soldiers worked their
way through the obstacles and came into the enfilading killing zones, the first wave took dreadful casualties. Company B of
the Royal Winnipeg Rifles was cut down to one officer and 25 men as it moved to reach the seawall. In the assault teams, the
chance of becoming a casualty in that first hour was almost 1 in 2. By mid-morning, hard fighting had brought the town of
Bernières into Canadian hands, and later Saint-Aubin was occupied.
Progress inland past the towns was good, and, as some armoured units arrived in later waves, they briefly interdicted the
Caen-Bayeux road. One Troop of the 1st Hussar tank regiment was thus the only unit of the entire Allied invasion to reach
its final objective on D-Day.

By evening the 3rd Division had linked up with the British 50th Division from GoldBeach to the west, but to the east the Canadians were
unable to make contact with the British 3rd Division from SwordBeach—leaving a gap of 3 km (2 miles) into which elements of the
German 21st Panzer Division counterattacked. The Canadians suffered 1,200 casualties out of 21,400 troops who landed at Juno
that day—a casualty ratio of 1 out of 18.